Impact of a Real-time Mentoring Tool on Antibiotic Prescription (medAL-mentor)

The goal of this ancillary study, part of the DYNAMIC project, is to reduce antibiotic prescription and improve the quality of care for children in primary care in Tanzania using a near real-time mentoring tool (called medAL-mentor), based on a monitoring and benchmarking dashboard and feedback by the monitoring team. The main question to be answered is: Can real-time mentoring, based on clinical decision support algorithm data, improve healthcare workers' compliance with guidelines - and therefore quality of care for paediatric outpatients? Health providers in participating health facilities will receive either the medAL-mentor tool and feedback from the monitoring team (intervention group), or standard mentoring (control group), so that the impact on antibiotic prescription and other quality of care indicators can be compared between the two arms.